蚂蚁与蚱蜢

Belinda

THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected

in the summertime.

A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed

by and earnestly begged for a little food.

The Ants inquired of

him, "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?'

He

replied, "I had not leisure enough.

I passed the days in

singing."

They then said in derision:

"If you were foolish enough

to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the

winter."

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow